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A87653	The Christian faith of the people of God, called in scorn, Quakers in Rhode-Island (who are in unity with all faithfull brethren of the same profession in all parts of the world) vindicated from the calumnies of Christian Lodowick, that formerly was of that profession, but is lately fallen there-from. As also from the base forgeries, and wicked slanders of Cotton Mather, called a minister, at Boston, who hath greatly commended the said Christian Lodowick, and approved his false charges against us, and hath added thereunto many gross, impudent and vile calumnies against us and our brethren, in his late address, so called, to some in New-England, the which in due time may receive a more full answer, to discover his ignorance, prejudice and perversion against our friends in general, and G.K. in particular, whom he hath most unworthily abused. : To which is added, some testimonies of our antient friends to the true Christ of God; collected out of their printed books, for the further convincing of our opposers, that it is (and hath been) our constant and firm belief to expect salvation by the man Christ Jesus that was outwardly crucified without the gates of Jerusalem.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Bradford, William, 1663-1752.; Thurstan, Edward.; Bull, Henry.; Bull, Anne.	1692 (1692)	Wing K151; ESTC W9990	12,798	20

peculiar Mysteries of the Christian Faith we do acknowledge and have alwayes acknowledged that the Doctrine of the holy Scriptures as outwardly preached to us by holy Men or as Read by us in ●he holy Scriptures or having outward●y heard these things have been Instrumental by and together with the Immediate working of the Spirit of God to beget in us the Know●edge and Faith of them and we desire to bless God for the benefit of the h●ly Scriptures given us being able to make us wise unto Salvation through Faith in Ch●ist Jesus but that we prefer the Spirit to the Letter we are not ashamed to own before all men and that God and Christ and the Spirit whom they testifie of are above the Scriptures and greater than they we do freely acknowledge for all outward Testimonies Means Instruments and Helps such as the holy Scriptures and all outward Preaching and Men and Books are but Servants to God and Christ but God and Christ are Lord and Master and King overall to whom be Glory and Honour forever and ever And as to the final state of all honest and conscientious Gentiles who have not had Christ outwardly preached unto them either by the Ministry of Men or the holy Scriptures it sufficeth us to believe that God is not wanting to them and it is one God who is the God both of Christians and Gentiles and who shall justifie the Circumcision by Faith and the Uncircumcision through Faith Rom. 3.30 and it is no greater nor other difficulty to understand how Honest and Conscientious Gentiles can be saved by Christ Jesus of Nazareth than how Infants and Deaf and Dumb Persons so born can be saved which our Adversaries generally acknowledge and therefore they can have no advantage against us in that respect Edward Thurstan Joseph Nicholson Henry Bull Daniel Gould Anne Bull Jacob Mott Thomas Cornwall Walter Clark Thomas Roadman Rob Hutchins George Keith John Easton Ebenezer Slocum Here followeth some Testimonies Collected out of the Writings of our Antient Friends giving some account of their Faith and Belief The Principles of Truth by John Crook c. p 3 to 18. MAny are the Reports that are abroad concerning this People not only as to their Practices and Deportments but also as to Doctrines and Beliefs The former time having resolved and worn out as being the Refuge of Lyes but tho' the first be gone yet the latter sticks with many as not knowing what they hold as to Doctrine some saying They deny the Scripture and the Resurrection of the Body and all Ordinances with the Man Christ and his Death and Sufferings and Imputation of his Righteousness and Faith in his Blood c. Wherefore for the Satisfaction of all that would willingly be resolved and know the Truth I have written this short Account of their Faith and Belief 1st We believe That the God of all Grace has given a measure of Grace or some Manifestation of his Spirit and Light thereof unto all men who at some time or other do feel something in their Hearts and Consciences that doth lust against the Flesh and the Flesh against it and that these two are contrary the one to the other one lusting after Evil which is Evil and the other after good which is good 2dly We believe by this Gift Grace and Inspiration of the Almighty man only can come to know the true God truly what he is and how he works in the Hearts and Consciences of People to regenerate them and make them bear his Image 3. We believe That all the Errors and Mistakes about God and the things relating to his Kingdome sprang and arose from mens wandering from this Gift of God into their own Imaginations 4. We believe and know That this Gift and Grace of God appears in and unto all men that all may be without excuse accusing for the Evil and excusing for the good Rom. 2.15 5. We believe That wheresoever the Power of God is not known within there the Gospel is hid and unknown 6. Through this Gift we believe That Christ Jesus the Son of God was manifest in the Flesh in the fullness of Time and this we know by the same Spirit by which our Fathers believed he should come and Abraham saw his Day by the same we do believe he is come and do see his Day as also by the Prophets and Apostles Writings which Two-sold Cord is not easily broken 7. We believe also That this same Jesus hath God highly exalted and given him a Name above every Name that whosoever believes on him shall not perish but have Everlasting Life and that there is not another Name whereby any can be saved than this Name of Jesus Christ Nor is Remission of sins to be preached by any other Name 8. We believe That this Jesus dyed for or because of sin and rose again for the Justification of those that believe in him and that he thereby spoiled Principalities and Powers and triumphed over them openly and led Captivity captive in his own Person It is not a Belief from the Letter only that can give a man the saving Knowledge of the Death of Christ but he must have the same Power in measure working in him to beget Faith in his Heart that he may believe unto Salvation as well as confess with his Mouth And this man whoever he be Bond or Free that thus believes the Death of Christ and its Satisfaction to God cannot make it void nor divide it but will say Here is a dying man witnessing the Death of Christ and nevertheless the same man living with Christ and concluding if Christ had not dyed man must have perished in his Sin This being the way found out by God to recover him 9. By this Gift of God in our hearts we further believe That Christ Jesus rose again from the dead and sits at Gods right Hand in a glorious Body And we believe that our low Estates and humble Bodies shall be made like unto his glorious Body th ough the working of his mighty Power whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself and that this Mortality shall put on Immortality And we believe that Regeneration or the believing in the Light of Christ within doth not make void the Death and Sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem no more than believing the Scripture Testimony without concerning Christs Death makes void the Work of Regeneration Mortification within but as the Apostle saith in another case so I say in this For as the Man is not without the Woman neither is the Woman without the Man in the Lord even so is not the Death and Sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem to be made void and of none effect by any thing within neither doth the Light within make th●t of none effect without but both in the Lord answers his Will For though there is and may be a Knowledge and Belief of what Christ did and suffered without the Gates in his

THE Christian Faith Of the People of GOD called in Scorn QUAKERS In Rhode-Island who are in Unity with all faithfull Brethren of the same Profession in all parts of the World VINDICATED From the Calumnies of Christian Lodowick that formerly was of that Profession but is lately fallen there-from As also from the base Forgeries and wicked Slanders of Cotton Mather called a Minister at Boston who hath greatly commended the said Christian Lodowick and approved his false Charges against us and hath added thereunto many gross impudent and vile Calumnies against us and our Brethren in his late Address so called to some in New-England the which in due time may receive a mo●e full answer to discover his Ignorance Prejudice and Perversion against our Friends in general and G. K. in particular whom he hath most unworthily abused To which is added some Testimonies of our Antient Friends to the true Christ of God Collected out of their printed Books for the further Convincing of our Opposers that it is and hath been our constant and firm Belief to expect Salvation by the Man Christ Jesus that was outwardly crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem Printed and Sold by William Bradford at Philadelphia in Pennsylvania in the Year 1692. Our Sincere Christian Belief is plainly asserted in the following Particulars viz. 1. Concerning Jesus of Nazareth the true Christ of God as he is True and Perfect God and True Perfect Man 2. Concerning his Conception Birth Life Death and Sufferings Resurrection Ascention Intercession and Coming again and Appearance to Judge the Quick and the Dead at the Day of Judgment in his glorified Body And the Resurrection of the Dead at what Time attained 3. Concerning his being a most acceptible Offering and Sacrifice to God for the sins of the whole World 4. Concerning the True Faith in Christ how it respecteth him both as without us in the Fullness and as within us in the Measure whole undivided being one Lord Jesus Christ 5. Concerning the Distinction betwixt the devout Gentile and Christian and how the Christian Dispensation far excelleth that of either Jews or Gentiles and the Dignity of Christianity above the most Refined and Devout Gentilism 6. Concerning a twofold inward Ministration of the Light and Spirit of God and Christ and the state of Servants and Sons 7. Concerning the great Benefit of the holy Scriptures and how they are made Instrumental to our Christian Faith and Knowledge 8. And lastly Concerning the Possibility of the Salvation of Honest and Conscientious Gentiles by Jesus Christ. The Christian Faith of the People of God called Quakers Vindicated from the Calumnies of Christian Lodowick WHereas Christian Lodowick hath given forth several Papers Challenging all these belonging to Newport Meeting who speak in the Meetings of the People called Quakers and that within these few dayes past he hath renewed his Challenge accusing the Fo●ndation of their Gospel Faith Doctrine and Religion to be unscriptural false and naught shaken and Sandy and challanging them to appoint one of their Number to dispute with him These are to give Notice to all sober People and Neighbours that these so challenged by him having taken his Challenge into consideration and finding many things in it falsly and perversly stated which they could not own so stated by him to be the Foundation of their Faith c. did meet with him at the House of Walter Clark in Newport in Rhode-Island the 18th of the 4th Month 1691. in order to have things fairly stated that if any did dispute with him they might know before hand what he was to dispute against but they could not procure him to allow of this but after that some of the things charged by him in his Papers began to be discoursed of in order to a fair and right stating of them he would not hear of it but went away And whereas divers of us challenged by him declared sincerely before many People there assembled on the said day their sincere Faith as concerning the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth and what the holy Scriptures testifie of him yet he did continue to accuse them still as Denying the True Christ alledging they had another S●nce than the Scripture words did bear and that his Sence was True but their Sence was False appealing to their Consciences whether it was not so Thus making himself Judge over our secret Thoughts as having a secret sence in our Thoughts of Scripture words contrary to the true sence of them though we have not given him o● any other occasion to judge so rashly and uncharitably of us and our Consciences bear us witness in the sight of God that we do sincerely believe and think as we speak when we say according to the holy Scripture That Jesus of Nazareth is the true Christ of God and the only true Saviour and there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby men must be saved and that this same Jesus was in fullness of Time born of the Virgin called Mary being conceived of the holy Ghost who dyed for our sins and rose again for our Justification and by his Death on the Tree of the Cross was a most acceptable Offering and Sacrifice to God for the sins of the whole World having tasted Death for every m●n and given himself a Ransom for all And we believe that Christ was God manifest in the Flesh even in that Body of Flesh in which he did suffer Death on the Cross and that the fullness of the Godhead dwelt Bodily in him and doth still dwell Bodily in him and that of his Fullness we all receive and Grace for Grace And we also believe according to holy Scripture that Christ's Body that was crucified on the Tree of the Cross was raised again on the third day and after forty dayes did ascend into Heaven in the sight of the Disciples and who is exalted at the right Hand of God and ever liveth to make Intercession for us and that Christ hath his Body in Heaven a most glorious Body not changed in Being or Substance but in Condition Manner of Being and that Christ is true and perfect God and true and perfect Man the Son of God begotten of God from Everlasting glorified with the Father before the World began and also begotten of God in the Womb of the Virgin called Mary and born of her in the fullness of time the Son of Abraham the Son of David who took not on him the Nature of A●gels but the Seed of A●raham and which he still hath and that Christ as Man hath both Soul and Body and his Manhood is most excellently and ●o●de●fully United with h●s Godhead yet his Manhood is not his Godhead no● is his Body that he had of the Virgin and now ha●h in Heaven his Godhead but the Temple of it as Christ called his Body the Temple and is the Garment or Cloathing wherewith the Eternal Word did cloathe himself who is that New and living Way